About me

Katie Orlinsky is a photojournalist from New York City. She regularly works for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and various non-profit organizations around the world. Her work has been published in Life, Newsweek, Le Monde, Stern, Time, Paris Match, Adbusters and the International Herald Tribune among others. Katie graduated from the Colorado College with a BA in Political Science and Latin American Studies. She is currently a fellow of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University and is a contributor with Corbis Images.

Awards

- POYI Emerging Vision Award, “Innocence Assassinated: Living in Mexico’s Drug War”, Pictures of the Year International 2011.

-Prix Ani-PixPalace, "Life on the Tracks: Central American Migration in Mexico", Visa Pour L'image 2010.

- Coup de Couer, "Life on the Tracks: Central American Migration in Mexico", Ani/Visa Pour L’image 2009.

- Women in Photojournalism Competition Winner, “The Calm Before the Storm” and “Passing Through”, National Press Photographer's Association 2009.

- The Review Santa Fe, Selection "The Third Gender", CENTER 2008.

- “Miradas en el Movimiento”, Honorable Mention "The Conflict in Oaxaca", Centro Fotografico Manuel Alvarez Bravo 2008.

- American Photography 23, Honorable Mention "Wayne" and "Ricky and Makayla", American Illustration/American Photography 2007.

Exhibitions

- "REVOLUCION(ES)", Fovea Gallery, New York, New York, 2011

- "Migrantes Frontera Sur", Casa Lamm, Mexico City; Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, Oaxaca City; La Curtiduria, Oaxaca City, 2009-2010.

- "Women in Photojournalism Competition", National Press Photographer's Association, Las Vegas, 2009.

- “Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now”, Exit Art, New York, 2008.

- “Miradas en el Movimiento”, Centro Fotografico Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, 2008.

- “New York Press: On the Wall”, Haven Arts, New York, 2008.

- “Muxes”, La Curtiduria, Oaxaca City, 2007.

- "Rebellion in Oaxaca", The International Center, New York, 2007.

Book Contributions

- Of the People: A History of the United States, Oxford University Press 2009.

- The American Journey of Barack Obama, Time Life 2008.

- Teaching Rebellion, PM Press 2008.

- Cuando Hasta Las Piedras Se Levantan, Editorial Antropofagia 2008.

- Memorial de Agravios, Independent 2008.